Nikki May

Nov 11, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Nikki May |Isabelle McConville

Identity and Belonging: A Guest Post by Nikki May This is Mansfield Park like you’ve never seen it before. Nikki May (Wahala) reintroduces us to a Jane Austen classic through a brand-new lens, reimagining the characters and setting an fresh, exciting way. Read on for Nikki’s exclusive essay on how This Motherless Land came to be. Hardcover $30.00 Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.

Oct 29, 2024 | readinggroupguides.com | Nikki May

From the acclaimed author of WAHALA comes a “vibrant” (Charmaine Wilkerson) decolonial retelling of MANSFIELD PARK, exploring identity, culture, race and love. Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But when tragedy strikes, she’s sent to England, a place she knows only from her mother’s stories.

Oct 22, 2024 | thefreelibrary.com | Nikki May

By Nikki MayPOPULAR FICTIONNikki May's second novel, This Motherless Land(Mariner, $30, 9780063084292), opens in Nigeria in the late 1970s after 9-year-old Funke Oyenuga's comfortable world is shattered when her mother and younger brother are killed in a car accident. Her father folds under pressure from his extended Nigerian family and sends Funke to live with her maternal grandparents at a remote estate in rural England.

Aug 17, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Nikki May |Kristin Hannah

A meaningful modern tale of becoming, belonging, and the ties that bind. This Mansfield Park retelling follows the trials and tribulations of two cousins—one Nigerian, one English—from 1978 to 1992. Ten-year-old Oluwafunke Oyenuga enjoys a happy life in Lagos with her Nigerian father, Babatunde; her English mother, Lizzie; and her little brother, Femi.

Aug 9, 2024 | brittlepaper.com | Subomi Aminu |Oyinkan Braithwaite |Lizzie Damilola Blackburn |Nikki May

Despite my best efforts to respond to that text I’ve left on read for days, Google something, check my email, take out the trash or check out my to-do list for the week, I find myself spending the next hour scrolling through TikTok on my phone. If you find yourself relating to this, you have undoubtedly come across BookTok as well. On TikTok platform, #BookTok is a community of users who share, discuss, and review books in the fomr of video content.